What are your strategies for Spires of Death? I recently submitted an attempt just so we'd have something on the leaderboard:

The basic strategy is:

1. get Warriors and Krolm x 2 up
2. get 3x level 3 marketplaces
3. build everything: fairgrounds, guilds until they cost 5k+, wizards towers, sorcerer's abode
4. all-out assault starting on ~day 27

The "build" step is the most interesting part - what does the optimal kingdom look like? Should you build a Magic Bazaar before your second Rogues Guild? Is it worth upgrading the Magic Bazaar?

There aren't a lot of quests that really showcase long-term kingdom building. Anyone have tips on how to improve this run or build their own kingdoms?

In A Deal with the Demon, the winning strategy is to use a Gambling Hall to boost your money from 5k to 100k in 24 seconds.

Wouldn't some other quests go a lot faster if you started with 100k?

Just today I went for Gambling Hall on Clash of Empires and improved my time from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. I also improved the Brashnard's Sphere record from 14 minutes to 13 minutes.

I feel this applies to any quest where you build 2+ marketplaces: instead of waiting for your economy to grow, just gamble it away. 80% of the time you'll lose everything and restart. But 20% of the time you'll magically go from 5k to 20k. This gives you a HUGE head start of several days over the traditional strategy.

So, don't you think the following quests can be improved by using Gambling Hall?

1. Tomb of the Dragon King
2. The Dark Forest
3. The Fortress of Ixmil
4. Legendary Heroes
5. Darkness Falls
6. Spires of Death

Hi all! I started running this game recently as I saw there was some activity recently and I've played on and off for a while.

I was trying to beat the Legendary Heroes WR.

Here's Reality's current WR:

• 21 days in-game time
• 23:07 real time

Here's my attempt:

• 20 days in-game time
• 24:06 real time

Which is faster? How does mine have less in-game time but more real time? In both runs we don't touch the game speed setting, so I don't know how we ended up with different times.

Mostly I'm looking for a way to normalize my setup with everyone else's so I can get consistent times.